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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in electronic educational technology are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open education undertakings. Instructors want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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